Scott Mann

Putting in tactics that really help people just make better connections in the moment.

There's no ceiling for them.

There's no limit to what they can do.

And that's what this book is.

It really is just chock full of best practices that I learned as a Green Beret.

And believe it or not, that I learned as an actor.

Hmm, interesting.

Yeah, yeah.

As an actor.

Yeah, because when we did, so when we wrote the play, Last Out, I'd never acted.

I mean, it was like the ultimate midlife crisis.

You know, I started studying acting at 50 and I snuck up to New York

I didn't tell anybody.

My wife's the only one that knew.

And I studied under Larry Moss and Carl Bure, really good coaches.

But I told him, I said, I want to do a play about the war to help civilians and politicians feel it, like in their gut, in their total plexus.

And I want veterans and Gold Star family members, when they watch that play, they say, that's me up there.

That's my life.

At the same time,

And those coaches said, well, Scott, you can't do that because the only thing you know how to do as a soldier is to take hard information and push it down.